Deutsch homophones
dehnen/denen
"dehnen" is a verb; "denen" is an unknown - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "dehnen" arrives as a verb, while "denen" is an unknown. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "de" then splits - "dehnen" (6 letters) vs "denen" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across dehnen, denen: den. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
dehnen
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory dehn · private h
denen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory den · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "dehnen" when you mean: etwas ausweiten, strecken, vergrößern
- Write "denen" when you mean: Dativ Plural des Relativpronomens der
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.